05 ❄ ( voice )

[wintershepherd]

[ Jack has come back to the city after his fight with Kyle and his talk with Bucky at the shell's edge. He isn't quite ready for video replies yet, knows that despite the usual cheerful timbre he's forcing into his voice it won't cover the fact that his eyes are sad and hollow. ]

Has anyone seen Periwinkle? I went to her suite to give her fresh snow but she's not there and it looks...

[ he fumbles for the right description ]

Unused.

[ private to Finnick ]
Sorry I haven't figured out those other lures yet, I... something-- kind of came up. I take it you saw the announcement?

[ private to Damian ]
I... wanted to apologize, for what I said to you on the sled hill. When you brought up-- I, I just shouldn't have snapped back at you like that. I don't have any right to say who trusts you and who doesn't. I'm sorry.

[ private to Kyle ]
... please don't tell everyone about the snow. I get it, okay? It was wrong and fake and cheating and a horrible thing. But just let them have a good memory of it and-- and I won't spread any more snow like that around. Please. I'll... I'll do whatever you want.

[ He doesn't think he could take it if all the people who thanked him for the snow day suddenly turned on him for it. The ones who'd had their hearts lightened enough to even be able to see him for the first time. ]

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[springsforward]

[Be so glad that he can't see those private notes, Frostbite.]

Friend of yours?

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[wintershepherd]

She's a frost fairy, Bunny!

[ he's able to put some genuine energy into his voice, at least for this ]

She's got white hair like me and really pretty wings and she's only a little bigger than the Baby Teeth.

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[demon_brat]

[Damian stares at his console for a little while. Of all the things, that is what he says? What he apologizes for?]

[Eventually, he shakes his head and keys up his console, returning audio as well.]

What is said to me does not really matter all that much. It was probably not particularly untrue, either.

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[wintershepherd]

True things can hurt just as much as untrue things, so it does matter.

[ After all, what Damian had said to him wasn't untrue either, but it had still stung more than Jack wanted to admit. ]

You were right, anyway.

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[insecrets]

Don't worry about it. Everything okay? [A pause and a sigh.] Yeah. Not surprising about the rations, but I wonder how everyone is going to deal with it.

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[wintershepherd]

[ Everything is by no conceivable stretch okay lately, but Jack quashes every ounce of bad feelings out of his voice before he replies. Finnick was one of the ones who'd thanked him for the snow, seen him because of it and Jack's terrified to lose that. ]

Yeah, it's all good.

I'll do what I can to help so that you don't lose too much of it. I don't really need my shares of anything.

[ He should be able to help out like that without screwing up. He should. ]

I could come by later, if you want? I have a few lures done at least.

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[backwordscompatible]

If her room's been cleaned out, it means she's probably been sent home. It's happened before.

[A pause. This part, she hadn't minded broadcasting over an open Network, but for what came next? Zatanna made sure to busy herself switching over to her usual Encrypted Feed as she thought of what exactly to say.]

I think...we need to talk, Jack.

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[wintershepherd]

Oh. So that's how that...

[ No one he's known well enough to be visiting their suite has left before, Peri is the first. It's an odd flighty feeling. ]

Ah... at least she's home now, right?

[ That last part didn't sound good. ]

We do?

[Video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

Hey, Jack. I'm sorry but I don't think I've ever seen anyone called Periwinkle.

[He offers an apologetic smile.]

I think a cleaned up suite means she got to go home though.

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[wintershepherd]

Oh... has this happened to someone you know, Victor?

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[imaginate]

[It takes him a while to answer, a) because he's rarely at his console, and b) he honestly doesn't know how. He's still angry, of course, and reading it again gets his hackles up because while he was up in arms about what was in the snow, he'd also been trying to drive it home that one had to control one's power.]

Two people know.

I don't want anything except for you to use it responsibly.

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[wintershepherd]

No. I won't make any more snow with-- that can do that.

You and Damian and Bucky, you all said the same thing when you found out so... you were right. About what you said and how... how it was wrong.

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[lostundercover]

I haven't seen her, but I can ask around.

Everything okay, kid?

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[wintershepherd]

Thanks Billy. Some people are saying she might have gone home, but... I'd like to know for sure, if I could.

Yeah, it's just been... a long couple of days.

[suoxi]

I haven't seen anyone by that name, I'm afraid. You'll be the first to know if I do, though.

[wintershepherd]

Thanks, Miss Inara.

She's pretty small though, so you're gonna have to look carefully.

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[kelpful]

I haven't seen her, but I'll...keep...

[A pause] Hey Jack, you create the snow, right? You're not hauling it out of the water in the canals or anything?

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[wintershepherd]

[ There's a moment of abject shocked silence and Jack's stomach twists, wondering did Kyle tell people after all? before he swallows and forces out a reply that sounds at least somewhat cheerful. ]

No, I make it. Why?

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[cynisme]

[he whistles, sipping at his bottle--albeit gingerly, given the news, but its not like Jack can see that, but there's a drunken slur to his voice.]

Alors, it seems that the blue fairy has passed on! And without sharing her wealth like her green sister, for shame.

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[wintershepherd]

[ Jack opens his mouth to comment that he doesn't even know if Peri had a green sister when the metaphor clicks. ]

She wasn't that kind of fairy, jeez.

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[mrsarcastic003]

[And now that Tim knows what happened with the whole snow thing, it's time he and Jack had a little chat.

Except he's not really sure how he feels about this. Clearly, Jack didn't mean to hurt anyone, and it was... mostly... harmless. But it was still a low-grade kind of coercion and mind control, and that is so, so not okay.]

So... snow day, huh?

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[wintershepherd]

I... sorry?

[ please be talking about something else please be talking about something else ]

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[brbparadise]

Oh mummy, that's a bummer. [There are a hundred sadfaces in her tone.] She was really cool for a not-monster monster.

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[wintershepherd]

Yeah, she was. But people are saying that she's likely gone home, so probably it's for the best.

How have you been, Mavis?

[the_other_eight]

She's missing?

[Private to Jack // Stark encryption]

Is everything alright Jack? Besides Periwinkle being missing.

[wintershepherd]

People are saying she might have gone home.

[ private; same encryption ]

Everything's... it's fine, Pepper.

[ worst liar ]